Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...to Martha Pinkerton. Anyhow, Stewart had used threatening language towards Knox, for which the minister summoned him before the Magistrates, who, having heard the case, bound Stewart over to keep the peace and not to molest Knox under pain of a penalty of a hundred pounds.1 Unfortunately for Knox, Stewart let fall some words in his hearing, which so incensed him, that, while they were yet in the presence of the Court, he struck Stewart violently upon the head with a key, to the effusion of blood.2 The Magistrates appear to have referred the " sclander" thus committed to the Presbytery, and that body, at its meeting on October 4, three days after the assault had been committed, suspended Mr. Andro from the ministry during its own will and that of the Session of the Kirk of Paisley. At the next meeting of the Presbytery, October 25, Knox presented a petition, " he himself being absent, quhairwith the Brethren was not weil satisfeit," especially as " they understood that the said Mr. Andro (since the act of his suspension) hes mellit with the Sacrament of Baptism and sua contravenit the said ordinance." Solemn intimation of his suspension was ordered by the brethren to be given from the pulpit of the Abbey Church, and Mr. John Hay and Mr. Patrick Hamilton were directed to take the case in hand. Knox now appeared to be aware of his misdeeds and of the gravity of the affair. On November 9 he appeared before the Town Council and offered to make amends; but the Town Council refused to listen to him until Lord Abercorn, in whose presence the assault had been made, was present. 1 1 Metcalfe, Charters and Documents, 266. ' MS. Records of Presbytery. Later on in the day, a joint meeting of the Presbytery, Session, and Town Council was held, when it...
